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Fisheries Governance (ICFG) Program for the Western Region of Ghana (Hen Mpoano). The survey aims to provide a baseline for …
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"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to stimulate growth and alleviate poverty in an increasingly integrated world. In particular, the paper synthesizes both the traditional theoretical literature on agriculture's role in...
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Ghana has seen notable poverty reduction alongside improvements in school participation since 1991. This paper examines … from the Ghana Living Standards Surveys. The results suggest that education levels play an important role in determining …
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This study provides an overview of the aquaculture sector in Ghana. It assesses the actual and potential contribution …
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microfinance has not had the much touted impact. This study ascertained the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction in Ghana … administered to 60 customers and beneficiaries of microfinance products of two major microfinance institutions in Ghana …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
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The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...
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We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of a permanent change in unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about to -0.25 for single-adult households, and...
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"Die Auseinandersetzung um die negative Einkommensteuer wird in der Bundesrepublik seit Beginn der 80er Jahre geführt und findet ihren aktuellen Niederschlag in der parteipolitischen Diskussion des Jahres 1994. So hat sich die FDP auf ihrem Parteitag 1994 für ein Bürgergeld ausgesprochen....
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"Die Auseinandersetzung um die negative Einkommensteuer wird in der Bundesrepublik seit Beginn der 80er Jahre geführt und findet ihren aktuellen Niederschlag in der parteipolitischen Diskussion des Jahres 1994. So hat sich die FDP auf ihrem Parteitag 1994 für ein Bürgergeld ausgesprochen....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005533415